Cloud Architect

Cloud Architect

8-10 years of experience. Subject Matter Expert in Azure and AWS cloud infrastructure and network technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, security, or operations.
• Experience with multiple public cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Experience relocating ERP application to a cloud-native environment.
• Ensures that standards set by Data, Security, Infrastructure, Platform, and other architecture domains are followed when designing and architecting cloud solutions.
• Demonstrate deep subject matter leadership of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multitenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability).
• Manage the development and implementation of cloud strategy, develop the architecture governance framework, and define architecture foundations.
• Demonstrates expertise in conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty.
• Identifies improvements to project standards to achieve high quality services/products.
• Identifies best practices and standards for the use of the product.
• Delivers support and design for industry specific technologies that require integration with systems or networks.
• Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts.
• Functions as a niche technical SME.
• Lead experience with technical expertise across large, complex implementations for systems.
• Define and enforce Cloud architecture best practices: availability, redundancy schemes, performance, Disaster Recovery, data, and integration patterns.
• Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack: IaaS, PaaS, services, applications, network, and security.
• Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a thorough understanding of business systems and industry requirements.
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operation time, and form of desired results.
• Provides consultation on complex projects and is considered to be the top-level contributor/specialist of most phases of systems analysis, while considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience; or a current Azure.
• AWS Architect Certifications.

Skills:

• Cloud DevOps experience.

Required 5 Years:

• Broad technology experience across several of these areas including, applications development, relational or NoSQL database, DevOps, containers, CI/CD.

Required 5 Years:

• Must have minimum of 8 years of experience in the design and implementation of cloud workloads in Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Required 8 Years:

• Experience with cloud networking and network security, including virtual networks, network security groups, cloud-native firewalls, etc.
• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8 -10 yrs. experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g., business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture).
• 8 -10 yrs. preparing complex technical documentation.
• 8 -10 yrs. experience in managing large operational cloud environments spanning multiple tenants through techniques such as multi-account management.
• Minimum 3 years of microservice architectural experience.

Required 3 Years:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience working exclusively on designing and implementing cloud-native workloads.

Required 3 Years:

• Experience with application lifecycle tools (Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).

Required 8 Years:

• Certified AWS Solutions Architect Professional.
• Certified Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Professional.

Compensation: $100.00 - $105.00 per hour